NM Goodwill collection box turns up inert grenade (September 3rd, 2010 @ 11:53am)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Just in case it wasn't clear: Weapons and drugs don't make good charitable donations.

Albuquerque police briefly evacuated a Goodwill store Thursday after someone left a pistol, ammunition, a grenade and some marijuana in a collection box.

Police spokeswoman Nadine Hamby says the police bomb squad took the grenade away for demolition after determining tit was a World War II-style inert- or inactive- grenade.

The police report did not list what type of guns were in the box or the quantity of marijuana.

The same thing happened to me when I was working for The Salvation Army, someone donated a "bouncing betty" and we called the Los Angeles Police Department Bomb Squad who ended up calling the military and a crew flew up from San Diego and blew it up in our parking lot.